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During the 2006 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain, numerous young women are caught and rounded up for dressing as men so they could...

Twenty-year-old Henri Rebecque wants to make his dream come true: to bring Benjamin Constant's Adolphe to the screen in amateur format. Armed with a...

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of...

A film adaptation writer wants to secretly write his first original screenplay about his true story of falling in love with someone who has recently...

The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge...

Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's...

The frontwoman for an Iranian death metal band risks everything as she plots to call the cops on her own underground concert in the hopes that the...

While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on...

During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the...